Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-30

not sav ~ o, auy INJURY that night did
I I;sa, ana see what Haddock was mn - ~
uiun Know where the PARTIES in 10 H. b,oll
~enS.' except that they we're after Haddoc nacA
rath n,Har sa;s by the state MUNICH
Pistb, another az az tho follows: Il knew Louis
ing with h m about o'clock on The cersa sna =,
pouglss and Fourth streets and when Ha Ha u.
wen mem' pas. IN buggy sa d, by lingo. there
g g,sn,. n aae l had just been to Her.
home abou tn s ana 10 ,ook drink there. left
went TO ortons saloon and took tn' tko an n,s
TRES mlee drinks OF beer there With P,ath
t hnsn l went up to Junk's saloon and
s soIA cigar: Then 1 went to Warlich,s
only few n 0"n one glass Of beer, and stayed
hear sfcE East saloon and took two glasses Of
peer FROM there we went to Maner,a ~
oaGc1 store and then went to Heille's saloon
stnaa .n N y. we went out on Fourth street. and
s sDseef sy n.n rsn, drug store
re re STOOD there few minutes. Il was there ,
ma, saw Haddock driving past in bnosv
WIN sort Of light colored horse, ThSsSn' i
W Men E 10 LOUIS Pla,h's saloon near tho corner
walked u m t aSa Nebraska .a5 streets Then 1
some saloon, but did CO. tainIy 20 up TO Junk,s
saloon saloon AT Junk's saloon i saw Junk and
ORION out in front did not see a praat
II,n,1y anout Junks. I think it was about
had gone out e eaat is income say that Haddock
who said SO. Some one -aiI that marty h,s
gone out in hack to watch Eaddock idon't
Know who said So 1t was three or four DAYS
al ad or ahe murder that 1 testified Lefore the
coroner,s jury, 1thlnk that Junk was there
when l heard some one on the street
say that q party of mon had COMA
out to SEQ what Haddook was do do
ing. There might have been Twenty-Five or
,n ara men scattered all around there. They
few minutes after I saw Haddock. l don't
know where the hack started from. From in
front OF Junk's went to Warlich's ga Don and
was there about half an hour and took two
tnn ana I!en l came out and started
minutes. Louis Pla h was with me. and
came cut and went east on Fourth street
1t was before went inio Junk's saloon lat
saw Murphy's hack Warlich's saloon was
e Wsr;o Of Pearl street was coming out Of
driver ana Piath and I went back to the
hack. thought it was the hack in which
.! me men were pursuing Haddock. l looked
y! ~ the hack and said to the driver that
it wasn't the hack that 1 was looking
for. That was about twenty minutes past
~ O'Clock. did not swear before the
coronor's Jury that it was quarter before 10
O'Clock did not swear before the coroners
Jury mat went home at 9:3O o'clock that
a.
loon. think Leader, Crazy, Scollard.
Leavitt; Treiber and others were there. 1
didn't know Henry Peters, I came out of
Junk's alone. left Plath in the back room.
When went into Junk's the oecond time
through the front room mo tho back room
| where tho bar was. About three or four
minutes after l went in l.: avitt, Arensd,rf
and others came IN. I think Leader was in
the back room wien went in. Idian't ,tay
min r
Leavltt, Ireber and Plath wantout After they
wore gone, went out I wont east on the
| south side of Fourth street to Pierce
and there crossed over to the north
side OF Fourth street and went
coming last out Of Junk's saloon. 1t was
raining and did not stop at ali. &c Hard and
Grady were standing by the show case in
Junk's saloon when west out the last time
had known George Tre!ber since he was
Leavtt and when We went to see Dan Nor
larity the day of tt g murcer. The las time
saw Treiber was about n week or so after tho
murder of Haddock. Treiber was standing
with mo while Leavitt was ia king with Nor
iarly"
81 knew Haddock by sight I had seen him
in the courthouse the day of the murder and
sas day before ] was not defendant in the
saloon cases Twas at the meeting of -aloon-
keepers at Holdenrieds hall the night before
the murder"
"After leaving Junk's saloon the last time
tho night of the murder met no ono between
there and Pierce street"
Mrs. Munchrath, wife of the defendant,
testified of his coming home the niYht OF the
murder about 1915 O'clock, and hen going
away and soon returning. Here the defense
rested
Tho state then introduced its rebutting tes-
timony Leavtt and Bismarck wers put
ON the stand. They contlaaicted Chas Ehler'
statement D. A. Magee was next called
His testimony was the hamo as in the Arens-
dorf case.
The surprise of the trial was when John E.
Robson was called to the stand. He tsst fed
that at the time of the murder he was superin-
tendent of the water-works; that he was On the
streets the night of the murder in pursuance
of his duties; that he went into Junk's ga
loon, and saw Scollard and Grady lhero;
that soon after John Arensaorf,, Leayitt
and six or eight others entered, all having
rubber coats on; that Arensdorf and the
crowd in few minutes went out of tho sa-
loon and he [Robson] went out just aftor
them; that they were standing in group ut
the door; that he went east to Douglas street.
the first cross street, and crossed over to the
north side, AMI at Martins corner he turned
and locked and ti.e crowd had all star ed west
from Junk's saloon and he saw it till it passed
the alley west of Junk's; that no one went
east from Junk's while he was there; that he
then won't north on Douglas street to his
home.
The state and the defense here rested the
hour being about II o'clock, Thursday, Sept
10. Late in the ternoon II. j. Iayloy opened
the argument in beualf of the state. He was
followed by Isaac Pend'eton for the defense,
and then G. w. Arg closed for the defenae.
He was followed by NJ. D. orc mall, who
wound up tho arguments for the state The
speeches in the main were able ones, and
gifted the testimony thoroughly.
At O'Clock in the evening Judge Wakefield
began reading his instructions. The court
room was filled with spectators, there being .
larger attendance tan at any previous time
of the trial. large number Of ladies being
present. The instructions were quite vol
luminous, but they covered about the same
points as the instructions gwen by Judge
Lewis in the Arensdorf IT. al, the divoFgences
being due in large part TO the differences OF
the facts de, eloped in the case. The rea ing
of the instructions was listened to IN almost
absou @ silence in the courtroom
The bailiffs who were 10 have charge OF the
jury were sworn and the jury retired about
GAO o'clo p. M, the court taking recess
and leaving direcs ions that he should be called
in case of The jury agreeing.
THE VERDICT.
Fred Munchrath, Jr., Found Guilty OF
Manslaughter-Penalty from